In flower shops, you can often see a tangerine tree covered with fruits and shiny green leaves on sale. Such exoticism is not cheap, so not everyone can afford it. But you shouldn't be upset. The citrus tree can be grown from seed at home. To do this, you need to study the basic rules for planting it and recommendations for care. And even beginner flower growers will be able to admire an exotic pet on their windowsill.

Citrus home tree - decorative mandarin

Mandarin belongs to the Rutaceae family. The plant is distinguished by evergreen leaves that change every four years, and amazingly smelling white flowers.

Tangerines breed vegetatively or by seed... At home, citrus fruits are most often grown from seeds. However, the result is a decorative bush that is unable to bear fruit.

In greenhouses fruit plants obtained by grafting. So if you want to feast on juicy fruits, then the exotic pet will need to be vaccinated. But first of all, you will need to germinate a bone, and free up space on the lightest windowsill.

Raising an exotic pet is an interesting activity. Therefore, the whole family can start growing a tangerine tree.

Preparing the soil

Citrus fruits do not like sour dry earth. The earthen mixture for them should not contain peat. Soils are sold in stores, which must include peat. That's why the mixture is best prepared by yourself... It should include:

• leaf land - 2 parts;
• humus - 2 parts;
• sand - 1 part.

The result should be a light earth that is well permeable to air and water. If there is no opportunity to prepare such soil, then in specialized stores you can buy special mixture for citrus or roses.

How to germinate a mandarin seed?

In order to get a positive result when germinating planting material, it is recommended to stock up on a few bones. In this case, the probability of obtaining seedlings will be greater.

The seeds will need to be selected from ripe tangerines no rot and damage... Before planting in the ground, they need to be allowed to swell and hatch. To do this, you can choose one of the proposed options:

1. Moisten a napkin or gauze with water, and wrap the bones in it. The planting material will swell within a few days. Care should be taken to keep the gauze moist all the time.
2. You can use a special hydrogel, among which permanent moisture will be provided to the bones. You can buy this gel in flower shops.

But how to plant a tangerine if there is no time or opportunity to soak planting material? Bones can be planted in the ground without hatching. In this case, the sprouts will simply appear later.

Planting seeds in the ground

Seeds hatching first are planted in seedling boxes or separate disposable small cups. At the bottom of the container, you need to put drainage in the form of expanded clay, perlite, nuts, shards or pebbles.

In the prepared soil, the seeds are sown to a depth of 4 cm, and sprinkled with earth on top. Seedling containers are covered with glass or cellophane and placed in a warm place. The result will be a greenhouse effect, and the seedlings will sprout quickly and amicably.

After the seeds hatch, it will be tedious to rearrange them in a bright place, shaded from straight lines sun rays... The temperature in the room where the seedlings of citrus plants grow should be at least + 20C. Do not forget to moisten the earth in time.

When the seedlings grow up and get stronger, they can be transplanted into pots, the volume of which should be about 4 liters. It is better to transplant using the transshipment method so as not to damage the roots. In this case, young bushes will quickly take root in a new place.

Features of caring for a citrus tree

Mandarin loves the sun, so you need to choose a bright place for it, preferably on the southern windowsill. However, care must be taken that the midday rays do not burn the leaves of the bush.

At home, when caring for an exotic pet, you need observe the following rules:

1. Water and spray the plant regularly, as citrus fruits are vital high humidity air. You need to water it with water that has been settled for at least three days. Watering should be regular and abundant. Increased air humidity can be provided by spraying. It will also be nice to humidify the air around the plant with a pallet with wet expanded clay, peat or moss, placed near the pot with tangerine.
2. A young plant must be transplanted into larger pots every spring. This must be done without damaging the integrity of the soil around the root system. A plant that has reached the age of eight requires a transplant every two years.
3. Two weeks after the first shoots appear, they need to start feeding. To date, there are special fertilizers for citrus fruits on sale, which are recommended to be used. Top dressing should be done only after watering. It is better not to water dry soil with a solution with fertilizer, as you can burn the roots.

Protecting mandarin from pests

Citrus pets at home often get sick, and then perish from pests... Exotic pets suffer the most from attacks:

• scabbards;
• citrus whitefly;
• spider mite;

These pests, invisible at first glance, feed on the sap of the plant. As a result, the bush is depleted, the leaves fall off, and the tree dies.

Young plants need to be inspected from time to time. And, having seen the smallest cobweb or the pests themselves, it is urgent to take action:

1. You need to rinse the bush well under the shower. Spider mites are very afraid of water.
2. It is better to use at home folk remedies in the form of an infusion of onion peel or garlic. Treatment with "green soap" also helps a lot.
3. Heavily infested plant requires application chemicals, which include "Fitoverm" and "Aktelik".

Occasionally, flies can be seen around your pet, which live in wet ground. Their larvae could already be in the purchased soil, or appeared from constant waterlogging of the soil... When such flies appear, the soil must be loosened, dried, and sprinkled with the preparation "Thunder-2".

How to plant mandarin at home?

In order for a grown tree to bear fruit, one cannot do without vaccination. The optimal time for her is August, April and early May.

To vaccinate an exotic pet, you need to prepare:

After everything is prepared, you can start getting vaccinated.

1. First of all, an incision is made on the stock in the form of the letter T. It should be located at a height of 10 cm, and have a vertical length of 2-4 cm, and horizontally - 1 cm.
2. Leaf blades and thorns are removed from the scion, and it is carefully inserted into the incision.
3. The joint is wrapped with tape.
4. The bush is closed on top with a plastic bag or jar.
5. About a month after the bud germinates, the plant needs to be ventilated daily.
6. The airing time is gradually increased. After another month, the stem of the stock is cut obliquely. This must be done 3 cm above the shoot. The cut is processed with garden pitch.

Now your tree is grafted, and soon, with proper care and growing, will begin to bear fruit.

As you can see from the instructions, planting and growing a fruiting exotic tree in your home is not so difficult. The main thing, have patience and clearly follow all recommendations. As a result, the tangerine bush grown from the seed will add coziness, comfort and pleasant aroma to the home environment.

Who hasn't tried to plant a tangerine or lemon at home? I've always dreamed of small garden in an apartment and I really like the idea of ​​growing in a pot miniature tree... Mandarin is best suited for these purposes: seeds for planting are readily available, the plant is unpretentious and feels good indoors. The only "but": beautiful fruits in the natural course of events appear only at 7-8 years of age.

The process can be accelerated if the mandarin is grafted on time - this is quite possible at home. If done correctly, fragrant orange fruits will appear within 4-5 years after planting and will be quite edible. In general, mandarin vaccination is no different from the same procedure for street garden trees... Below I will tell you in more detail how and when it is better to plant mandarin at home.

Although the tangerine is evergreen and at home, in conditions of stable temperature and additional illumination with phytolamps, the change of seasons seems imperceptible, the tree still follows the cycle laid down by nature. In winter, it “falls asleep”, all processes inside are inhibited; active sap flow takes place in spring and summer.

Therefore, the ideal time for grafting is spring, when the plant is just starting up, April-May is best suited. In principle, you can plant a tangerine in the summer, but the later, the more difficult it will be for him to adapt. Still, vaccination is a rather traumatic procedure, it takes time and energy to heal cuts.

It is important to remember that mandarin should be planted no earlier than 2 years after planting. The tree must prepare: develop a root system, grow a strong trunk. The thickness of the rootstock (the plant to which the graft will be planted) must be at least 7 mm. Mandarin can only be grafted at home if it is already strong and looks healthy. The procedure can be carried out no more than 2 times a year.

How to plant mandarin at home?

Preparing for grafting a tree in the same way as for an operation: conditions and tools must be sterile. In no case should the cut points be touched with bare hands, so as not to infect an infection. You should immediately take care of the dressing material - you should have electrical tape and garden pitch or plasticine for processing open wood at hand.

For the procedure, it is better to choose a warm, but not hot day, better with high humidity (but not in a heavy rain!). In the heat and in direct sunlight, a freshly grafted tree can easily get burned. Increased humidity will help you recover faster, but excessive dampness contributes to rot and fungal diseases.

If everything is ready, then you can proceed. There are several ways to inoculate tangerines at home, as well as for garden trees:

• Petiole grafting (copulation). You can use the split method or attach the petiole to the bark.
• Eye inoculation (budding).

The easiest way, understandable and accessible to a non-professional, is the method of inoculation into cleavage, therefore we will dwell on it in more detail later.

Tangerine grafting into cleavage

The step-by-step instructions are as follows:

• First you need to prepare the stock: it is cut at a height of 5-10 cm from the ground. The place of the cut must be cleaned and wiped with a cloth. For greater safety, you can treat it with a fungicide.
• The thickness of the scion should be approximately the same as the diameter of the trunk. For these purposes, use fresh (no older than two years) twigs of adult fruiting citrus fruits: tangerine, lemon or orange. Although related varieties take root best of all.
• The petiole is cut on both sides - there should be 2 to 4 mature buds. Small leaves can be left, or all of them can be cut in half or completely. Wide leaf plates increase moisture evaporation and draw off vitality.
• One side of the scion, with which you will insert it into the split, is cut off with a shallow wedge. All cuts must be smooth and clean.
• A cut about 2 cm deep is made on the rootstock from above in the center.
• The graft is inserted with a wedge into the cut (split) on the rootstock so that the cambial - deep layers of wood that provide growth - coincide.
• The connection is tied tightly with electrical tape. More often it is advised to tie from the bottom up, but there is an opinion that it is better to start from the top - this way you immediately fix the junction. Everything open areas must be processed with pitch or plasticine.

Remember that all operations must be carried out quickly, without delay, so that the wood does not have time to oxidize.

The whole procedure is clearly shown in the video:

Caring for tangerines after vaccination at home

After being vaccinated, the mandarin needs care in order to recover faster. For the first month, it is advisable to keep the tree in a greenhouse, for example, made from a plastic bag - this will keep optimum temperature and humidity, as well as protection from drafts. But every two days, it is advisable to ventilate the plant in order to give an influx fresh air and get rid of dampness.

Whether the vaccine was successful or not, it will be clear in about 2-3 weeks. If during this time the scion remains green or slightly yellowed, then everything is in order. If the branch has not grown, it will turn black and dry out. Then you can remove the harness, although it is better to leave it for at least a month. If successful, the vaccination site will look something like this:

Briefly about the main thing

• Vaccination is needed in order to speed up the fruiting of tangerines at home. In the natural course of things, the tree will begin to bear fruit only after 7-8 years and they will grow wild. The grafted plant will delight you with edible, tasty tangerines as early as 4-5 years old.
• Citrus fruits can be grafted from two years of age, the plant must be strong and healthy in appearance. The best time for this is mid to late spring. Operations can be performed no more than 1-2 times a year.
• The easiest way to plant a tangerine at home is the splitting method. It is important to carry out all procedures quickly, in sterile conditions, and treat the wounds with garden pitch - otherwise the wood will oxidize or pick up an infection, and the graft will be rejected.
• When combining the scion and rootstock, make sure that the cuts are even and smooth, without burrs. It is best to use a sharp knife. For successful fusion, the cambial layers must be combined - this is a thin strip of wood under the bark (under the woody and lubok layers). This part of the wood is responsible for growth. Therefore, the wedge at the end of the scion must be long.
• After grafting, the tree needs rest and care: it is best to place it in a greenhouse and ventilate it regularly. The harness can be removed not earlier than after 14 days, but it is better to leave it for a month.
• If after 2-3 weeks the scion is green, and the overlap begins to grow together, then the vaccination was successful.

Home-grown citruses have long ceased to be a rarity. Many crops are grown from seed and produce good harvest, if the landing and care are correctly followed. Tangerines are no exception, but in order for the desired fruits to appear on the tree, vaccination is necessary. This procedure has its own rules and subtleties that need to be considered.

The importance of vaccinating indoor tangerines

When planting seeds of citrus plants, you can really grow a beautiful tree that is unlikely to bear fruit - in best case it can be sour, practically not edible wild fruits. In this case, there is no need to wait for a normal harvest. To get fruits of the same variety from which the seeds were taken, you will have to carry out vegetative propagation, usually this is cuttings and grafting.

This event is the combination of several parts of a plant - the stem or foliage of one tree with the stem of another, as a result of which fusion occurs, which has a beneficial effect on fruiting. In this case, the tree to which the grafting is done is considered a stock, while the attached part of another plant is a scion.

For a tangerine, the scion can be any one-year or two-year-old similar fruit. These plants are needed for cuttings and buds. The stock can be a wild, indoor tangerine tree, more precisely, its seedling.

This vegetation gives undoubted advantages:

• the possibility of rapid reproduction and crossing of different citrus crops;
• the onset of flowering and the formation of ovaries in a short time;
• resistance of the tree to negative external influences;
• improvement external characteristics plants;
• high quality and quantity of formed fruits.

Mandarin vaccination has its own characteristics and different variants execution, and it is quite simple to carry out at home.

We plant only high-quality seedlings

To obtain normal varietal fruits with acceptable sizes and good taste, first of all, it is necessary to properly grow a tangerine from a seed, and only then make a connection with a scion from an already fruiting tree. Growing a quality seedling can be considered preparatory stage to plant grafting, which is at the same time a guarantee of further normal fruit formation.

Experienced gardeners advise:

• plant several seeds at once;
• for this purpose, take only ripe, even overripe fruits;
• take planting material from the fruit immediately before planting;
• do not use spoiled and rotten tangerines.

Place the bones on a saucer with gauze soaked in water and cover with the same damp material. The swollen bones are ready for planting, and they are moved into separate cups with soil, and with the development of the root system, into a more spacious container. Do not forget that the soil for the plant is light and nutritious - for this, humus, compost and sod land are combined in equal parts, and good expanded clay drainage is also required.

For further growth, the tree will need regular watering without waterlogging, diffused light, and regular ventilation of the room. Novice gardeners will have to be patient, since the plant grows at home for a long time.

Features of the procedure

According to agrotechnical rules, it is possible to plant a tangerine at home, starting from its two years of age, since until this moment the plant has not yet been fully formed, and, therefore, is not ready for reproduction. It is desirable that the size of the shoot is 5-7 mm in diameter.

Better process in early spring(early April) or late summer (last week of August). True, some experts in this field believe that best time for this procedure, it is May, and if the plants are planted in a greenhouse without heating, then even later - in June.

A special technology is provided for during vaccination:

• all conductive cuts must be perfectly smooth;
• before joining, the graft site should be treated with a fungicide and soap solution;
• pre-disinfected instruments and sterile gloves are used for work;
• it is better not to touch the cut areas with your hands;
• the process must be carried out in a short time so that the plant tissues do not have time to oxidize when exposed to air.

A week before vaccination, abundant watering of the tree is necessary. You will also need to take care of the availability of a variety that will become a scion - a cutting with 2-3 buds will be required from it.

Manipulations are best carried out at high humidity in the room, thereby preventing the drying out of the grafting site.

Basic methods

There are several vaccination techniques that can be used to carry out transplantation. The simplest way, in which plants are least damaged, is called budding. His characteristic feature- T-shaped cut on the main tree, in which the bud-eye (scion) is placed.

In this case, the following requirements must be observed:

• before the procedure, you need to wipe the bark of the original plant with a damp material;
• the cut is made 4-7 cm from the ground, it should be about 3 cm long and 1 cm wide;
• the edges of the cut are expanded by inserting the scion;
• a paste based on wax and propolis is applied to the site and fixed with a special grafting tape.

To be on the safe side, you can get two vaccinations at once.

After 30 days, the upper process of the rootstock can be shortened by 10 cm. If the plant is grafted different varieties citrus fruits, it is possible to get the fruits of different crops on the same tree. The fact that grafting was unsuccessful may be indicated by the appearance of a black bloom at the grafting site.

Copulation provides two options for action.

1. In the first case, both parts of different plants are selected with an identical shoot diameter. In both, oblique cuts are made, vertical notches are made in their center. Both parts are then combined and matched optimally.
2. An alternative method involves making two incisions on top of the plant material. Next, they will need to be tightly connected.

At the end of the work, a special tape is used, a dense film is additionally fixed on top to create a microclimate. Splitting grafting is recommended for novice gardeners.

The procedure provides for the following sequence of actions:

• the vaccination site is treated with a damp cloth;
• using a pruner, the shoot of the main plant is cut horizontally;
• the center of the stock is cut to a depth of 3 cm;
• the scion is sharpened using two slices of the same length;
• all that remains is to place the scion in the split incision, then apply it with putty and tighten it with garden tape.

Two or three scions can be placed in one stock at once. For the correct work, it is necessary to use such means as PVC tape, putty and special garden tools for vaccination. If the seedling was grown from a fruit seed indoors, it is necessary to carry out the grafting process in a slightly different way.

First, the bark is peeled off from the main plant 100 mm above the soil, an incision is made on the hemp, and a plant graft of a scion with several buds is inserted inside. It is important that the complete compatibility of the plant parts is maintained.

Newbies in gardening should be aware that there is no 100% guarantee that the plant will take root, but the grafting procedure can be repeated.

A successfully grafted plant will be able to give a full harvest in 2-3 years, but for this it needs to create comfortable conditions... The room should be warm, humid (more than 50%), a lot of air and light, excluded direct sunlight. If possible, then after vaccination, it is better to temporarily transfer the pot with the seedling to the greenhouse. But you can also take care of the greenhouse climate at home by covering the container with the culture with a transparent plastic wrap.

Other points related to caring for tangerines are also important.

• It must be watered regularly using only filtered or settled water. In summer, watering is carried out up to 3 times a week, in winter time once in the same period is enough. Treatment with a weak manganese solution will be required twice a month.
• The culture requires periodic spraying with ordinary water, in the summer - every other day, and in the winter - once every two weeks.
• Up to four years, the plant must be replanted annually, adult trees - every two years. For a room culture, each transplant is carried out in a pot that is about 5 cm larger in diameter than the previous one. An earthen lump must be preserved, otherwise, root system tangerine can be damaged.
• As for feeding, organic fertilizers compost-based, horse manure, humus and mineral supplements should be applied throughout the spring and summer with a frequency of 2-3 times a month.

It is important to monitor the condition of the citrus crown. To do this, not only shorten the trunk and cut off the damaged branches, but also pinch young shoots as soon as 6 leaves are formed on them. This is necessary so that the strength of the plant is directed towards fruiting, and not towards growth. Ideally, the shape of the tree should be round. In winter, the plant rests, it needs cool air (+14 degrees) and rare watering.

For information on how to grow a tangerine from a seed, see the next video.

Everyone who has seen homemade tangerines from friends dream that they also have zither at home. mustache tree with fragrant flowers. Many are stopped by the fear that they will not have the strength and knowledge to properly care for such an exotic pet.

Indeed, some citrus indoor plants require specific growing conditions, but not tangerine, caring for it is quite simple: it is unpretentious and hardy to live on ordinary windowsills of Russian apartments.

Anyone can grow a tangerine from a seedling purchased at a flower shop, since this is already a grafted fruit-bearing tree.

If you cannot afford to allocate money from the home budget to buy a plant, then you can grow a tangerine at home on your own. To do this, you need to have only a few seeds taken from ordinary fruits.

Homemade citrus fruits: decorative mandarin

Several years will pass, and you will be full of pride from a slender tree with very beautiful shiny leaves. The citrus scent will spread throughout the apartment, which will add extra coziness and comfort to your home.

The tangerine tree is from the spherical root family, the leaves are evergreen, change every four years, the flowers are white, smelling good.

This citrus tree propagates by seeds or vegetatively. Most often, many at home have indoor tangerine grown from seed. But this is only an ornamental houseplant that improves the interior of the apartment, but it is absolutely not fruitful or has very small inedible fruits.

On farms, citrus fruits are always grafted to produce delicious fruits. You will have to do a similar operation if you decide to feast on juicy vitamins. If you just want to try your hand at growing citrus plants on your own, then you can do it one hundred percent.

Make room for them on the south side if you have poisonous plants then they are not the best neighbors for indoor citrus fruits, move them to another windowsill.

How to grow a tangerine at home from an ordinary seed

Soaking the seeds

Everyone who has come across the cultivation of seedlings from seeds knows that they must swell. We take a few tangerine seeds and soak them in gauze for several days. There should not be too much water, let the fabric be slightly damp, and you will simply add water as needed.

If in your plans to have only one home tangerine, still let there be 10-15 seeds: not all will germinate, some will die from diseases, and someone will die a "death of the brave" when you try to plant the plant yourself for the first time.

There is no desire to deal with gauze - a hydrogel sold in specialized stores will help you. Professionals involved in landscape design, ordinary amateur gardeners use it whenever possible, as it is a wonderful protection of plants from heat.

Hydrogel is akin to drip irrigation, but in our case it will not be added to the soil, but will serve instead of gauze, as it retains moisture perfectly. The bones must be kept in the middle of the gel so that they do not dry out.

Landing in the ground

The hatched seeds are transplanted into a pot or a regular seedling box. Some do not wait for the bones to swell, but immediately plant them in the ground. The sprout appears a little later, but it looks no worse than the one that grew from the soaked seed.

What soil is required to get a tangerine at home? Peat must not be used: it is often sour, quick-drying, and does not have any special nutritional properties. It is found in almost all mixtures sold in stores, so you will have to prepare the soil for growing citrus fruits yourself:

• sod land - 3 parts;
• sheet land - 1 part;
• decayed cow dung- 1 part;
• sand - 1 part;
• a small amount of clay.

For townspeople, such manipulations are unrealistic, so try to buy neutral, nutritious soil "Rose" or "Biohumus". According to reviews on the Internet, it is well suited for citrus cultivation. As a last resort, you can take ordinary soil and mix with a small amount of ash, superphosphate and organic fertilizer.

Do not forget to put expanded clay or pebbles for drainage at the bottom of the pot. When will the first leaves appear? Citrus houses begin to grow vigorously within three weeks of planting.

Indoor citrus: care, nutrition, protection

As soon as the first sprouts appear, they should be fed every two weeks with mineral and organic fertilizers.

It is great that there are special fertilizers on sale for the care of citrus plants. First, the tree is watered, and then fertilization occurs.

Such a houseplant should be transplanted in the spring of every year, trying to maintain the integrity of the soil around the roots. When the tangerine tree at home reaches eight years old, then the transplant is done in a year.

Mandarin loves the sun, a window on the south side is an ideal place for it, but so that in winter the temperature does not drop below 14 degrees. Every week, indoor tangerine should be sprayed, high humidity is vital for it, so let there always be dishes with water next to the pot.

Watering the tangerine tree in summer should be very abundant several times a day, in winter - up to three times a week as the soil dries out with water room temperature... Active feeding of citrus fruits occurs from April to September, from which the fruits will grow sweeter.

Many young indoor citrus fruits die from pests that are practically invisible to humans: red spider mites, citrus whiteflies, scale insects.

If you look closely, you can see that the plant is entwined with the smallest cobweb, destructive for it. Check the seedlings regularly to spot problems early on.

There are preparations "Aktellik", "Fitoverm", designed to thoroughly wash all the sheets from above and below with their solution. Proceed according to the attached instructions, spraying is not effective, therefore only rinsing, which is repeated several times a week later.

How to grow a fruiting tangerine

A tangerine from a stone in nature begins to bear fruit in 4-5 years. This will be the so-called wild, which has tasteless fruits. Tangerine grafting is an acceleration of fruiting, getting mouth-watering fruits. It is done during the period of sap flow: April, early May, August. In other months, success is impossible, good result also depends on quick, careful action during grafting in a clean environment.

What should be prepared for grafting a tangerine tree:

• the stock is your seed-grown plant with a trunk no thinner than 6 mm (like a pencil approximately);
• scion - fresh stalk or peephole, taken from a fruiting citrus fruit, from a branch not older than two years;
• garden pitch;
• elastic tape;
• budding grafting knife.

A T-shaped incision is made on the rootstock trunk at a height of 10 cm: horizontal - 1 cm, vertical - 2-4 cm. The graft is prepared: thorns and leaf blades are removed. The bud with a small layer of wood is carefully cut and inserted into the incision. The place of "operation" is carefully wrapped with tape. After grafting, the plant is placed under a jar or plastic bag to create the necessary humidity and microclimate.

Only after a month it will become clear whether budding has turned out or not. Let there be several experimental samples, since it will no longer be possible to redo it - the period of sap flow has passed. It is best to start experiments in the spring, if there is no success, repeat at the end of summer.

As you can see that the bud has sprouted - the sprout is accustomed to the air outside the jar. Airing is gradually increased, the winding is removed. A month later, when the new shoot is already growing well: the stem of the stock is carefully cut with a knife obliquely higher by 3 mm from the base of the shoot and covered with garden pitch. Potted stick to train tangerine tree grow vertically at home. That's all! Good luck, do not forget to water, fertilize and spray your citrus tree.

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Salad, as the earliest and unpretentious green culture, has always been held in high esteem by gardeners. Spring planting most summer residents usually start by sowing lettuce, parsley and radish. Recently, the pursuit of a healthy diet and big choice greens in supermarkets make gardeners wonder which of these plants can be grown in their beds? In this article, we will tell you about nine of the most interesting, in our opinion, types of salad.

Another “bonus” is always “attached” to the flowering of indoor roses - capriciousness. When they say that it is easy to grow roses in rooms, they are disingenuous. For flowering indoor roses it is necessary to create literally ideal conditions. And vigilant care, attention and response to any plant signals is the main guarantee of success. True, no matter how capricious roses are, growing them in a pot format can be quite successful. And attentive flower growers should not be afraid of this.

Pollock is best cooked in a casserole, separating the fillets from the skin and bones. Pieces of fish are mixed with a variegated vegetable set, poured over with a sauce of cheese, sour cream and eggs. This fish casserole has a presentable look, and its taste is a whimsical mixture of subtle nuances. Vegetables and fillets are soaked in sour cream, the cheese will harden with a golden brown crust, eggs will tie all the ingredients together. Pieces of fish are abundantly sprinkled with Italian herbs, and pollock acquires an unusual piquancy.

Despite the fact that the calendar spring begins in March, you can truly feel the awakening of nature only with the appearance flowering plants in the garden. Nothing testifies to the arrival of spring as eloquently as the clearing of flowering primroses. Their appearance is always a small holiday, because winter has receded, and a new gardening season awaits us. But, in addition to spring primroses, there is still something to see and admire in the garden in the month of April.

Growing rapidly and turning into wild thickets, hogweed disrupts the existing ecosystem and suppresses all other plants. Essential oils contained in the fruits and leaves of hogweed, cause severe forms of dermatitis. At the same time, it is much more difficult to deal with it than with other common weeds. Fortunately, today a remedy has appeared on the free market that can rid your site of most weeds, including hogweed, in a short time.

Carrots come in various colors: orange, white, yellow, purple. Beta-carotene and lycopene predominate in orange carrots, yellow due to the presence of xanthophylls (lutein); white carrots are high in fiber, while purple carrots contain anthocyanin, beta and alpha carotenes. But, as a rule, gardeners choose carrot varieties for sowing not by the color of the fruit, but by the timing of their ripening. About the best early, middle and late varieties we will explain in this article.

Recommended enough easy recipe pie with an appetizing chicken and potato filling. Chicken and potato open pie is great hearty dish, which is perfect for a hearty snack, it is very convenient to take a couple of these baked goods on the road. The cake is baked in the oven for one hour at 180 degrees. After that we put it on wooden surface, having previously released it from the form. It is enough to slightly cool the baked goods and you can start tasting.

The long-awaited spring for many indoor plants is the period of the start of active vegetation, and for the majority - and the return of their decorative effect. Admiring young leaves and emerging shoots, one should not forget that spring is also a great stress for all indoor plants. Sensitive and versatile, all indoor crops face much brighter lighting, changes in air humidity and temperature conditions.

You can easily prepare homemade Easter cake with cottage cheese and candied fruits, even without any pastry experience behind you. You can bake Easter cake not only in a special form or in paper mold... For the first culinary experiences (and not only), I advise you to take a small cast iron pan... The cake in a frying pan will not turn out as high as in a narrow form, but it never burns and always bakes well inside! Yeast curd dough turns out to be airy and aromatic.